The Book Industry Study Group hosted a presentation on tariffs yesterday, where Jack Stevens and Kelly Morrison from supply chain management company Woodland Group discussed how to navigate the ever-changing tariff landscape. Books themselves are largely exempt from tariffs since they’re considered educational materials. Compared to other tariff exempt commodities, books and printed materials are a relatively small segment, accounting for $3.4 billion in “value of goods imported”. (Pharma is the largest segment, near $600 billion.) “I think it’s quite nice to be in that [segment] where you can largely move under the radar of the administration when they come […]
Archives for August 2025
New Books Publishing August 5
This week’s fiction releases include novels by Jason Mott, Sarah Pekkanen, and Elaine Castillo, while new nonfiction includes work from Alexis Okeowo, Robert B. Reich, and Michael Thomas. Among August’s children’s releases is a new graphic novel by Mariko Tamaki and Nicole Goux. Also publishing this week are books by Louis Sachar, Emma Nanami Strenner, and Hester Steel, all excerpted in our Buzz Books 2025: Spring/Summer anthology. Watch Louis Sachar discuss THE MAGICIAN OF TIGER CASTLE, his first book for adults, in our engaging Buzz Books panel. 31 works of fiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-fiction-publishing-august-5 14 works of nonfiction https://bookshop.org/lists/new-nonfiction-publishing-august-5 […]
Oprah’s Book Club Pick
People 8/5
Obituary: Ann Harris
Editor Ann Harris, 99, died on June 1 at home in Manhattan. She started in publishing in 1952 and worked at Harper & Row and Bantam before retiring. She edited classics including William Peter Blatty’s The Exorcist, Colleen McCullough’s The Thorn Birds, and Stephen Hawking’s A Brief History of Time: From the Big Bang to Black Holes.
Distribution: Yad Vashem
Baker & Taylor Publisher Services is now selling and distributing Yad Vashem, the World Holocaust Remembrance Center, in the US and Canada.